Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location left six dead, most of them bystanders, and days later the headless body of a Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River. Everybody assumes that they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it - and that hunch leads him to the Texas-Mexico border.

A robbery ends in murder, the killers claim to be terrorists, and the only co-operative witness fears for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession - but he never thought that he himself would need protection.

A political assassin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed, bomb threat. In a few days, the corruption of one cop - and the madness of an assassin - could blow the whole city sky high. Featuring the regular cast from the "Badge of Honor" series.

Matt Payne is sent to Harrisburg to gather evidence against a narcotics unit that is suspected of stealing from the very people whom they have arrested. Payne is also working with the FBI in its attempt to locate several terrorists who, in 1968, blew up a scientific laboratory, killing 11 people.

In 1943 Tunisia, Major Robert Bellmon is captured by the Germans; U.S. Army officers face the dangers and opportunities of the Korean War; and a delegation of American soldiers is secretly sent to Vietnam to aid the French.

In Philadelphia -- suffering among the country's highest murder rates -- the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings -- especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line" -- and then the committee's combative...